Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George's mother would go his bond. . . . He will go before the judge at the next term of court . . . where he will stand helpless before the charge and he won't get much sympathy in any quarter...
...which dramatically offers specific guaranties as an earnest of American good faith. It is a demilitarization policy. It is a policy which now substitutes justice for vengeance in these formulas of peace; which now insists upon ethnic recognitions that no longer traffic in the lives and destinies of helpless peoples; and which spurns expansionism as a plague upon tomorrow's peace and security. It is a policy which invites all of our partners in the war-instead of a closed corporation of big powers-to have a proper voice in the making of the treaties and the writing...
...both Iran and Manchuria, continued the Alsops, regimes pitted against the Soviet's new imperialism are helpless. "Both," they said, "could reunite their countries ... if they were not faced with the absolute certainty that determined efforts to do so would not be effectively aided by the U.S. and Great Britain, while Soviet aid to the opposition . . . would be greatly increased...
...R.A.F., went down six times before the punishing fists of U.S. light-heavyweight champion Gus Lesnevich. Six times Mills got up and almost beat Lesnevich's face out of shape. In the tenth, Freddie forgot to duck again; he got up at the count of nine, a helpless target. The referee stopped the fight...
...swiftly caught on to every unethical trick. The man who wanted a new automobile in a hurry, but had no car to trade in, knew that some dealer would sell him a secondhand car at $800 and then take it back in trade at $400. The OPA was virtually helpless against the racket in autos. It caught some little fish (some of them several times), but snagged few really big ones...